After sending Cheng Xi home, Cao Mo took a taxi back to Tianzifang. Xiao Jun and Guo Donghu sat in a music bar on the street and chatted awkwardly.
Cao Mo sat down and picked up a bottle of beer and said, "With your qualifications, Mr. Guo, you won't have to worry about finding a job in Xinhai. There's no need to suffer in front of me, right? Or maybe Guo always resents me for giving you this job?"
Did your job get messed up?"
"How dare you?" Guo Donghu sat vacantly, handed over a cigarette, and said, "It is not difficult for me to find a job in Xinhai to support my family, but I feel that I can exert greater value by working for Mr. Cao.
I am also confident that it will help Mr. Cao’s career..."
"Has your visa to Kanem expired?" Cao Mo asked.
"The visa does not expire until June and can be extended at any time if necessary," Guo Donghu said.
"I don't know when we can reach an agreement on the acquisition. Maybe we won't be able to reach an agreement at all in the end. If you work for me now, I can only offer you an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, including everything, and overseas allowances and overtime pay.
If you don't have anything, are you still willing?" Cao Mo asked.
Guo Donghu hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "I believe Mr. Cao will not treat me badly. I can accept this condition."
Seeing that Guo Donghu's words were full of cunningness typical of middle-aged people, Cao Mo smiled. There was nothing to worry about at all.
Whether the acquisition of Xinxuan Food can be successful or not, Cao Mo will have his own industry in the country.
Even if no suitable target can be found in the end to implement the acquisition and invest in building a new factory, people like Guo Donghu, who are proficient in many aspects of this industry, will be needed to cooperate with Chen Feng to get the job done.
Chen Feng is currently in charge of the negotiations with Xinxuan Food. Cao Mo cannot use Guo Donghu to stimulate Gu Jinxing domestically for the time being, but he is now almost ready to integrate the food trade and production of both sides into one framework, especially Longta's cocoa.
Many aspects of the bean processing plant need to be further sorted out, and Guo Donghu can take charge of this aspect first.
"In cocoa butter and powder production, I invested in a small factory in Canem. No matter whether I can successfully acquire Xinxuan in the next step, I will integrate this business into one company. Chen Feng will serve as the president of Cornero Foods
, you work as Chen Feng’s deputy. A three-month probationary period, an annual salary of 200,000 yuan; when the probationary period is over, I will give you 1% of the equity in Cornero Foods; when the two-year period expires, I will give you another 1% of the equity.
If you can accept it, it's already late today. I'll inform Chen Feng tomorrow about the draft contract and you can make preparations when you go back. You can accompany me to Kanem in the next two days to sort out the business there..." Cao Mo
said.
Cao Mo initially expected to give Guo Donghu 3-4% of the shares in order to recruit him, but since Gu Jinxing could not wait to force him away from Xinxuan Food, there was no need to be too generous.
Now the landlords don't have any surplus grain, so they can save whatever they can.
This morning Gu Jinxing formally asked him to submit his resignation report. Guo Donghu was mentally prepared, but he still felt like he was being slapped.
There are still two to three hundred domestic cocoa powder processing factories in Xinhai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Whether you are looking for a job in this industry or in the related food industry, it is not difficult to apply for a manager or production director, but it is also difficult to have room for advancement.
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Related industries in the country have already
The development is relatively mature and has entered the stage where the big fish eats the small fish. The internal management structure of large enterprises is almost stable, but the managers of small enterprises are facing the crisis of being eliminated at any time.
Cao Mo is probably his best, and one of the few with room for improvement.
The annual salary of 200,000 yuan plus 2% equity was in line with his expectations, so Dangjie readily agreed.
Cao Mo knew that Guo Donghu wanted to make a fool of himself in front of him, and he must be very hungry. Seeing that there were only beer, boiled peanuts, duck tongue and other snacks on the table, he waved to the waiter and asked him to help him buy a hundred yuan.
Some mutton skewers and a piece of grilled fish...
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When Cao Mo returned home, he saw his father wearing glasses and sitting with Jiaying in the living room with pen and paper, calculating something. He yawned and asked, "What are you doing, staying up so late?"
"Muxiang's accounts for April are about to be sorted out, and you should come and take a look!" Cao Xiong said, "It's been more than ten days since you came back, and I haven't seen you all day long. What are you busy with?"
"You are busy forming a private army, but you don't believe me," Cao Mo said.
"Believe it or not, I whipped you with something, and I didn't even speak properly." Cao Xiong picked up the water glass on the coffee table and pretended to throw it over.
"Hey, I'm your investor. If you show me some respect, I'm angry, but I have to withdraw my capital!" Cao Mo stepped aside and said with a smile.
"Do you still remember that you are an investor? When you go to Muxiang, you don't care about business other than eating and drinking?" Cao Xiong asked angrily.
"With this small investment, I..." Cao Mo saw that his father really wanted to throw water at him, so he sat down and said with a playful smile, "Don't I trust your ability? Besides, it's rare for me to go back to China for a vacation...
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"Brother, you just need to be dealt with." Jiaying came over and said with a smile.
"You don't have to go to class tomorrow, why are you still up late?" Cao Mo asked.
"Our school will also have the May Day holiday tomorrow! Doesn't your company have a holiday?" Jiaying stared at Cao Mo in surprise.
"Ah?! Our overseas employees' holidays are consistent with the local ones, which are different from those at home. I didn't even think of this." Cao Mo knew that tomorrow was May 1st, but how did he have the concept of holidays now? He was still preparing
In the past two days, Guo Donghu and Xiao Jun were dragged along and returned to Canem first, and then left for Benin after Stari made arrangements.
【.】 Cao Mo pretended to pick up the report. He had not paid much attention to the development of Muxiang B&B before. Jiaying would send him some information from time to time. He mainly just admired the pictures of the internal and external layout and did not have the energy to pay too much attention.
deep.
Muxiang B&B has been in operation for three months.
As the domestic economy develops, although there is still a big gap with Europe and the United States, as the most prosperous first-tier city, leisure and vacation-type individual travel has already reached a considerable scale.
Currently, as one of the few high-end B&Bs in Xinhai, Muxiang B&B Online mainly does some low-cost promotion on tourism and city forums, and the results are very good.
However, the number of rooms in Muxiang B&B is still too few. Even though it currently has an occupancy rate of 60%, and the total occupancy rate of the fifty long-term and short-term rental apartments has remained above 80%, it is still limited by its scale.
The profits currently generated are very limited.
This is already quite good.
According to Chen Rong's idea, the staff team must be established first. The personnel expenses are relatively high, and the initial marketing promotion is much higher than that of other B&Bs.
To put it bluntly, Chen Rong wants to establish the business model first, build the brand, and then further invest to expand the scale, reduce marginal costs, and make profits.
Of course, the conservative approach is to cut unnecessary costs and expenses and generate stable profits, but this is obviously not a choice they will make.
Cao Mo took a look at the report, and he was able to understand what Chen Rong was thinking. There was no place for him to point fingers. He put the report back on the coffee table and said to his father: "I've cared about it, you can go upstairs."
Are you sleeping?"
"You've already cared about me, don't you want to make some suggestions?" Cao Xiong asked.
"Chen Rong is your adviser, what suggestions can I make?" Cao Mo asked.
"I also work as a consultant," Jiaying claimed the credit. "I go to forums to do publicity. Dad doesn't even know how to do it. I'm teaching him the publicity pictures and slogans. I made them all. It saves Dad money."
Responsible for posting, but reluctant to hire a marketing specialist.”
"It's better to save some money and spend it now!" Cao Mo said.
It’s not that he is really reluctant to spend money, the main reason is that the more complicated his father’s work is now, the more he will understand the industry. From gold mining to cement plant construction to operation, he will do it bit by bit and dig.
The feeling is particularly profound. Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan do not need to do this because they have accumulated enough in the past twenty years.
"What Chen Rong means is that it can barely be considered a success now, and then we should consider expanding the scale..." Cao Xiong said.
"Okay, let's follow up with additional investment. In addition to my salary, I also do some private work in Kanem, which is still a small amount of money. How much additional investment will Chen Rong say next?" Cao Mo asked.
"Chen Rong didn't say how much the increase would be. I've been thinking about this industry for four or five months, and I've found some ways to do it. I'm thinking about getting a house loan..." Cao Xiong said.
"You don't want me to invest more. You can just take out the mortgage on your house. Why are you holding me back from sleeping?" Cao Mo said with a yawn.
"There will definitely be risks in doing business, and this house will be left to you or Jiaying in the future. I have to ask for your opinions no matter what. If you think the risk is too great, Muxiang Private will run it for another one or two years, and wait until the real deal
It’s not too late to expand the scale after some accumulation,” Cao Xiong said.
At this time, Cao Mo was convinced that this was Chen Rong's idea.
He used the mortgage loan on his house to inject capital, so that in addition to the 10% management equity previously agreed upon, his father was officially one of the investors of Muxiang B&B. However, Chen Rong had thought carefully about her old lover.
The problem is that the market value of his house is about three million. Even if a bank is willing to lend it, it will have to give a 40% discount. It seems a little less, right?
In other words, Chen Rong still calculated his father's investment based on the initial investment, and then officially used the market-based valuation for the second round of financing.
If you put it this way, his father only needs 1.5 million, which is his initial investment of 500,000, to occupy 50% of the shares of Muxiang B&B, and that is enough.
When the second round of capital increase is officially launched and other investors are invited to participate, the equity valuation will not be calculated this way...